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June 8, 2026 | Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) |Opening the FAO Council's 181st Session, FAO Director-General warned that the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz — a chokepoint for r

May 31, 2026 | AP News |Since Iran's war began on February 28, disruption to Strait of Hormuz shipping has driven fertilizer prices up 40-50%, per World Bank and IFPRI data, pushing farmers across

June 2, 2026 | International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) |IRRI joined rice and climate researchers from FAO, AfricaRice, IRTA, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, and NARO at a write

May 28, 2026 | International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) |IRRI, the Vietnam Rice Industry Association (VIETRISA), and Can Tho City's Department of Agriculture and Environment piloted ViRiCert,

June 12, 2026 | Economic Daily News (經濟日報) | (In Chinese)Taiwan's Tea Research and Extension Station, under the Ministry of Agriculture, guided a tea farmer and Taiwan Agriculture and Forestry'

June 10, 2026 | Central News Agency (CNA) | (In Chinese)Taiwan's Floral Industry Innovation Center, under the Ministry of Agriculture, completed the island's first carbon footprint inventory f

UN Food Systems Coordination Hub / Joint SDG Fund | Source | Report | Between 2024 and 2025, the Joint SDG Fund's Food Systems Transformation Window channeled its Seed Funding Track — roughly USD

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) | Source | Report | Part of IUCN's Common Ground on Food and Agricultural Systems series, this report comparatively assesses the international

November 14, 2024 | Nature Communications | Introduction: Cover crops offer multiple agroecosystem benefits including higher yields, soil carbon storage, and erosion control, but their net value is co

May 8, 2024 | PLOS ONE | Introduction: Assessments of cover crop climate value typically quantify carbon sequestration and N₂O emissions, but omit land-use effects, specifically the carbon savings tha

March 1, 2025 | Field Crops Research | Introduction: The benefits of cover crops for soil health and yield are well documented in temperate systems, but evidence from tropical, highly weathered soils

March 11, 2026 | European Journal of Soil Science | Introduction: Autonomous field robots are gaining attention as a tool for sustainable crop management, with mechanical weeding currently their domin